Database Software

Hiya Gurus,

I'm new to OSB, so maybe I'm misunderstanding the way it's intended to work - feel free to put me right - but...

Other enterprise backup software I've used requires you to label new tapes before it can use them, which writes a software label at the start of the tape and gives it a volume name (usually the same as the barcode). This is usually a simple operation, often a single command.

OSB, as far as I can see, sort of half-way does this - I can label a tape, but it still doesn't really exist as a volume, nor is it a member of a media family. This only seems to happen when the first backup is written to it.

How, then, do I tell OSB that these new tapes I've just put in are to be assigned to the "Daily" pool (== media family?)? Obviously if I immediately run a noddy little backup to it, specifying the family, it then gets a volume label, but this seems a little, well, noddy.

Can someone clarify how I should be doing this? Am I trying to work against some basic philosophy behind OSB?


Thanks,

David.